I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

Zahi Hawass

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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

— Zahi Hawass

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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

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For an unknown reason they were buried rapidly in the small tomb.

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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb,

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